Segmented Fountain Pen

One of my wife’s friends asked me if I would make a pen for her to give to her husband for his birthday. I took the opportunity of “no restrictions” to work with the Jr Gent II kit from Craft Supplies USA. I really like the look of this kit (it’s the black titanium finish)

there are 234 +/- pieces of maple, walnut and jatoba used in this pen and I’ve been working on it for the past few days (after work, well into the night!)

I’m pretty happy with the results. Comments and critiques are certainly welcome.Thanks for looking!

I’m not crazy about wooden pens, but I’m drawn to this project because of the details, the obvious skill, and a serious time investment. How long did it take you to create the blank, compared to the turning?

I used a CA/BLO finish.The blank took about 6-8 hours to complete. At this point, I don’t “punch a clock” so the time is only an estimate. The other night I while I was working on it, I was able to sit at the kitchen table and watch Spiderman 2 to pass the time. When working in the shop, I’ll put on some music and time just flies!

I make sure to take my time while turning (don’t want to tear apart a blank that takes that long to make!) so I think turning was about an hour to an hour and a half.

Thank you for the compliments, I appreciate the feedback. I have another to turn (hopefully today) that will be donated to my daughter’s school for a fundraiser.

Due to some cr@ppy weather yesterday, this pen didn’t get picked up so the birthday boy still hasn’t seen it. Hopefully that will happen today. I understand he’s a bit of a “pen snob” (meaning he’s a pen collector and like quality pens) so I’m really kind of anxious to hear about his reaction.